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THE MEDIA NOTED (7 11) A NEW ROUND OF CRITICISMS BY PEKING ON THE GOVERNOR'S CONSTITUTIONAL PACKAGE. PAPERS REPORTED WIDELY A SEMINAR ORGANISED BY NCNA HK BRANCH, WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY LOCAL DELEGATES TO THE NPC AND CPPCC. NCNA HK DIRECTOR, ZHOU NAN, WAS QUOTED AS SAYING AT THE SEMINAR THAT DISCUSSIONS HAD TO BE HELD ON THE BASIS OF THE JD AND BL AND NOT ON THE BASIS OF THE GOVERNOR'S PACKAGE. HE SAID THE BRITISH SIDE HAD TWO ALTERNATIVES: TO CONTINUE THE PRESENT PATH WHICH WOULD DAMAGE HK PEOPLE'S INTERESTS AND HK'S STABILITY AND PROSPERITY, OR RETURN TO CONVERGENCE WITH THE BL. MR ZHOU WARNED ANY PLANS AIMING TO TURN HK INTO AN INDEPENDENT OR SEMI-INDEPENDENT TERRITORY WOULD NOT WORK. CPPCC DELEGATE XU XUMIN QUOTED MR ZHOU AS DENYING REPORTS THAT PEKING WOULD TAKE BACK HK EARLIER DUE TO THE PRESENT DEBATE. A LOCAL NPC DELEGATE CHENG YIU TONG QUOTED MR ZHOU'S DEPUTY, QIN WEN JUN, AS DISMISSING AS ANOTHER RUMOUR REPORTS THAT LEGISLATORS WHO VOTED IN SUPPORT OF THE GOVERNOR'S REFORMS WOULD NOT RIDE THE THROUGH TRAIN.
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REPORTS NOTED (7.11) A FRONT PAGE COMMENTARY IN PEKING'S OFFICIAL PEOPLE'S DAILY SAYING THE GOVERNOR SHOULD DISCARD HIS POLITICAL BLUEPRINT AND GO BACK TO THE TRACK OF CONVERGENCE WITH THE BL. THE COMMENTARY SAID THE KNOT SHOULD BE UNTIED BY THE PERSON WHO TIED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. A CNA COMMENTARY (7.11 DESCRIBED THE GOVERNOR AS A SPRINTER WHO MADE A FALSE START AND SHOULD RETURN TO THE STARTING POINT AND BEGIN AGAIN. CA COMMENTARY (7.11) IN THE WEN WEI PO NOTED THE GOVERNOR HAD COMMITTED ERRORS WHICH INCLUDED: UNDER-ESTIMATING CHINESE DETERMINATION TO UPHOLD THE JD AND BL, WRONGLY ASSESSING THE INTERNAL SITUATIONS OF BRITAIN AND CHINA, LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF CHINESE INFLUENCE IN HK'S POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FIELDS, WRONGLY ASSESSING PUBLIC OPINION IN HK AND OVER-ESTIMATING THE EXTREME RIGHTISTS' DEMAND FOR DEMOCRACY.
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REPORTS NOTED (7.11) REPRESENTATIVES FROM SEVERAL RIGHT-WING ORGANISATIONS HANDED IN MORE THAN 1,000 LETTERS TO GOVERNMENT HOUSE EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR THE GOVERNOR'S POLITICAL PACKAGE AND THE AIRPORT PLAN.
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REPORTS QUOTED (7.11) LU PING AT A LUNCHEON MEETING IN NEW YORK, AS SAYING AS THE GOVERNOR DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN PREVIOUS TALKS ON HK'S FUTURE AND WORK IN RELATION TO SETTING OF THE BL, THE GOVERNOR DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF BL TO HK'S
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